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Kamangir | September 23, 2007 | Category Iran, Islamic Republic, War
Twenty Seven years ago these days, the Iraqi army invaded Iran. For the next eight years, the long border between the two countries, both of were ironically Shia Muslim, was the scene of shooting, bombarding and artillery fire. Behind the scene was all filthy politics, including Khomeini’s ambitious sentence “War is a good thing” and the infamous Islamic Republic slogan”We reach Palestine through Iraq” [not exact translation]. However, on the front, ordinary Iranians inhaled chemical gases, which would gradually kill them in the next ten years, and Iraqi “infidels” were shot dead by the “army of Allah”. The war was irritatingly mixed with religious and nationalistic concepts, on both sides.
This is a tribute to those who defended their mother land, against people just like themselves, with the same stupid reasons for fighting. More pictures in the photoblog.
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A lot of the soldiers in those pictures look like they’re just in their teens. Do you happen to have any figures regarding the percentage or number of child fighters in the Iranian Army at that time?
Kamangir: I don’t have the numbers, but the Iranian army of the time was very young. Seeing teenage soldiers was not strange at all at the time.
How did that motto go in Farsi? If I can remember it was something like “راÛ٠قدس شری٠دربین کربلأ است”
Thank you.
You did good, man. In the field, the nationalist and religious stuff tends to die fairly quickly, with all being left are your unit (a family of sorts) and wanting to go home, wishing it would all just stop…
I wasn’t in a battlefield, but I know enough people who were. And you did good, man.